B3A.
Illustration for Comus, The Mask
(John Milton). 1856.
1. THE WILL OF THE WISP (p.67).
Note: Although this design was originally intended for Willmott's Poets
of the Nineteenth Century (1857; see the letter below B3's entry), it did not appear in print until
1858. Had this fact been previously known, this entry would have
been separated from B3 to form a new one (B4). The design was later expanded and
used for 123 (Jack O'Lantern).
B6.
Illustrations for Dealings with the Fairies
(George MacDonald).
.14. COULD HE BELIEVE HIS EYES? THERE
LAY--NO WOLF--BUT WATHO! 1903. PROV: ...;
thence to his son Bernard Powell MacDonald; thence to his grandson
Peter MacDonald; thence to his widow Rosemary MacDonald; thence in 2006
to her son Christopher MacDonald. Bought from a dealer by Private collector.
B11.
Illustrations for Enoch Arden
(Alfred Tennyson).
EXH: ...; Richmond 1998 (14--10, repr.
p.33; 15--12, repr. p.33; 16--17).
LIT: Notes & Queries, 7 October 1865, p.300; ...
Thomas Woolner to Emily Tennyson, 9 October 1865 (Woolner, p.267):
I hear from Arthur Hughes who told me he had been working
hard at "Enoch Arden" and that Payne pressed him sharply as to time,
but I advised him not to be pressed on any account so as to run any
risk of doing the designs hastily, for art is a thing that will not
admit of hasty and sudden freaks from publishers, however enterprising. To W.M. Rossetti [16 December 1865] (MS: South African National
Gallery):
Windsor Lodge
You will very soon be seeing my wretched illustrations to
Enoch in the book; and I have just now all the drawings on paper by me
for a few days, and they are a little better than their
smaller printed duplicates.
B15.
Illustrations for Tom Brown's School Days
(Thomas Hughes).
Arthur Foord Hughes To William E. Preston, 1 January 1919 (MS:
Private collection):
The Cottage, Pett, Sussex
I shall be very keen to see the photograph of your
picture & think I shall know at once whether painted by my late
father. We as children served our turns very often as models,
& I have a lively recollection of half holidays being given up with
my late cousin E.R. Hughes R.W.S. to sitting for the 1st [illustrated]
edition of “Tom Brown’s Schooldays.” My 3 sisters you may be sure
did their part with a better grace.
B18.
Illustrations for 'At the Back of the North Wind'
(George MacDonald, in Good Words for the Young).
14. DELETE THIS ENTRY--SEE B45A.5
BELOW.
24. THEY TOOK THE SHAPES OF THE WIND. India ink on thin card, 85 x
62mm, unsigned
PROV: Commissioned by Alexander Strahan; possibly gifted to the
George MacDonald family. Anon sale, Lawrences of Bletchingley, 26
October 2011 (part of 1596), bought by Wright Antiques; bought from
them in December 2011 by Private collector.
41. DIAMOND BEGAN TO AMUSE HIM. India ink on thin card, unsigned.
PROV: Commissioned by Alexander Strahan; possibly gifted to the
George MacDonald family. Anon sale, Lawrences of Bletchingley, 26
October 2011 (part of 1596, repr.); bought by Wright
Antiques.
42. DIAMOND TOOK THE BABY IN HIS LAP. India ink on thin card, 90 x
65mm, signed l.l.: 'AH' (monogram).
PROV: Commissioned by Alexander Strahan; possibly gifted to the
George MacDonald family. Anon sale, Lawrences of Bletchingley, 26
October 2011 (part of 1596, repr.), bought by Wright Antiques; bought
from them in December 2011 by Private collector.
61. HE WAS ENTRANCED WITH HER LOVELINESS. India ink on thin card, signed
l.l.: 'AH' (monogram).
PROV: Commissioned by Alexander Strahan; possibly gifted to the
George MacDonald family. With Chris Beetles Ltd. in 2006.
EXH: ...; Richmond 1998 (17--16; 18--47; 19--60, all
three repr. p.35).
B23.
Illustrations for The Window; or, the Songs
of the Wrens (Alfred Tennyson). To Susan Lushington, 20 February 1914 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
I have been making friends with Cadogan Cooper: he ...
[has] one of my better pen and inks framed and hanging up!
B24.
Illustrations from 'Lilliput Revels'
(Matthew Browne, in Good Words for the Young).
4. BARBARA PETLAMB.
5. THE PEDLAR'S DIAMOND.
8. LITTLE KEEPER.
9. HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES.
10. KNIGHTLINESS.
PROV: .... Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 27 June 2006 (part of 24, all
repr.
colour); bought for £4,200 (the Lot) by Maas Gallery; 4 was bought from them by Private
collector.
B29.
Illustrations for 'Lilliput Lectures'
(Matthew Browne, in Good Words for the Young).
4. TRADE.
PROV: .... Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 27 June 2006 (part of 24, repr.
colour); bought for £4,200 (the lot) by Maas Gallery.
B35.
Illustrations for 'King Arthur's Great Boar Hunt'
(anonymous, in Good Words for the Young).
1. KING ARTHUR'S BOAR HUNT.
PROV: .... Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 27 June 2006 (part of 24, repr.
colour); bought for £4,200 (the lot) by Maas Gallery; bought from
them in June 2009 by Mike Titterington.
B36.
Illustrations for Sing-Song (Christina
Rossetti).
LIT: ...; Academy, 23 December 1893, p.573; ...
41. IF A PIG WORE A WIG.
43. 1 AND 1 ARE 2. PROV: ...; bought
in 1937 from R.E.A. Wilson (inscription verso). Thomas Agnew
& Sons (label verso). Mary Durnford; bequeathed in 2002 to
her nephew Ed Ruck-Keene.
Photo courtesy of the owner.
117. MOTHERLESS BABY AND BABYLESS MOTHER.
118. CRIMSON CURTAINS ROUND MY MOTHER'S BED.
PROV: ...; bought from him in April 1998 by Dr. Dennis T.
Lanigan; gifted by him in 2011 to National
Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
EXH: ... A Dream of the Past, University of Toronto Art Centre,
8 April-22 September 2000 (32, repr. p.109).
LIT: ..., Kooistra, Lorraine Janzen, Christina Rossetti and
Illustration (Ohio University Press, 2002), pp.97-126.
D.G. Rossetti to John Westland Marston, 21 November 1871 (MS: Bryn
Mawr):
My sister Christina is bringing out a little Nursery
Rhyme book, of which the publisher will send you a copy....
I should add as to my sister's little book that the
drawings in it by Arthur Hughes are to my mind beyond all praise.
In Mackenzie Bell's copy of Sing-Song 1893 (Private collection), Hughes wrote the following
comments:
Below the frontis - 'Drawn on Holmwood Common, Surrey';
Lower margin of p.5 - 'Well -Sketched at Cookham Dene near Maidenhead';
Ditto p.8 - 'Cottage window -Holmwood Common';
Ditto p.9 - 'In old Farm Cottage, Holmwood';
Ditto p.10 - 'Rush basket made by children .Holmwood:';
Ditto p.23 - 'portrait of my wife & baby son- AH [monogram]';
Ditto p.25 - 'Holmwood common & Redlands woods (hill behind
rainbow)';
Ditto p.38 - 'Pigeon Cote. at farm just off Holmwood Common,';
Ditto p.43 - 'Portrait of youngest daughter of AH [monogram]';
Ditto p.45 - 'Portrait of youngest son of AH [monogram]';
Ditto p.46 - 'Eldest daughter & youngest son . AH [monogram]';
Ditto p.48 - 'Sun Dial in an old garden at Maidstone.';
Ditto p.60 - 'Mouse I found on Holmwood Common AH [monogram]';
Ditto p.61 - 'Donkeys pigs geese etc, drawn on Holmwood common';
Ditto p.62 - 'Style & tree at Holmwood';
Ditto p.94 - 'Belfry sketched near Wimbledon .';
Ditto p.98 - 'Sketched near Holmwood /';
Ditto p.103 - 'Overlooking the Thames, on the road to Rochester near
village called either "Stone" or "Chalk" but I forget which . they are
both on that road.' (in the margin of the page proofs sent by Bell to
Hughes for his comments, the latter corrects this to 'Stone just
before coming to Green hithe');
Ditto p.105 - 'Mole found on Holmwood common.';
Ditto p.109 - 'Sketched at Docks.';
Ditto p.110 - 'Chair in cottage at Holmwood';
Ditto p.113 - 'This delighted DGR- very much - he spoke of the "silly
happy sort of" expression of the man';
Ditto p.119 - 'Youngest daughter & son AH [monogram]';
Ditto p.127 - 'My bedroom window at Holmwood lodging. AH [monogram]'.
Bell used these annotations for his discussion of the drawings in his
1898 biography of Christina Rossetti (see pp.263-70).
B40.
Illustrations for 'Innocents' Island'
(Matthew Browne, in Good Words for the Young).
20. YOUNG LAZYBONES.
PROV: .... Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 27 June 2006 (part of 24, repr.
colour); bought for £4,200 (the Lot) by Maas Gallery; bought from
them by Private collector.
B41.
Illustrations for 'The History of Gutta-Percha
Willie'.
Alexander Strahan to George MacDonald, n.d. [c.1873] (Shaberman,
Raphael B., George MacDonald: A Bibliographical Study
[Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1990], pp.132-33):
P.S. When speaking of money I forgot to mention the book "Gutta
Percha Willie." It stands this way:- I paid you £50 on
account of it, and I paid for Mr. Hughes's illustrations £94.10/-
(ninety guineas). One half of the latter sum is charged against
the magazine, and the other against the book....
B44.
Illustration for 'My Daughter' (in Good
Things for the Young of all Ages, January 1873). 1872.
5. MY DAUGHTER (GEORGE
AND THE DRAGON). Pen & ink on card, 16.5 x 11cm,
6½ x 4¼ in. Signed l.r.: 'AH' (monogram); inscribed
in pencil (in another hand?): 'Good line block' and 'Please keep this
drawing clean'.
5A. MY DAUGHTER (sketch). c.1900.
Pencil on paper, 17.5 x 11.5cm, 7 x 4½ in. Unsigned;
inscribed l.c.: 'My Daughter'.
PROV: .... 5 was with Dr. Greville
Matheson MacDonald; thence to his son Bernard Powell MacDonald; thence
to his grandson Peter MacDonald; thence to his widow Rosemary
MacDonald; gifted by her to Scottish National
Portrait Gallery. 5A was
with Peter Austin Daniel by c.1900; anon. sale, Sotheby King
& Chasemore, Pulborough, 23 July 1980 (part of 1431), bought for
£11.15 by private collector; bought from him in August 1992 by
private collector; acquired from him in December 2000 by David Ross;
gifted by him in August 2002 to Yale Center for
British Art, New Haven.
B44A.
Titlepage illustration for Rambles by
Patricius Walker (William Allingham). c.
late-1872.
?Pen & ink.
1. QUEEN'S BOWER (circular).
The design was later used (c.1875) for Jacques and the Stag
(140).
B45A.
Illustrations for "The London Mixture"
(various, in Good Things for the Young December 1872 Christmas
Issue).
1. THE FAIRY AND THE SLEEPING CHILD
(p.1).
2. SHEPHERDS WITH THE ANGEL (Initial "I")
(p.1).
3. BARBARA VISITS MR. MILES (p.2).
4. LONDON MIXTURE (p.3).
5. BARBARA'S FAIRY STORY BOOK (p.4).
6. THE BEADLE AND THE VAGABONDS
(p.8).
7. MATCHES AND THE FLOWERS (p.10).
8. THE THREE ORANGES (p.22).
9. RIZADEEN AND THE PRINCESS (p.32).
PROV: 1 was gifted by Dr. Herman T.
Radin on 20
August 1937 to New York Public Library
(MEKV). 5 was gifted by A.E.
Anderson in 1916 to Victoria & Albert Museum
(E.420-1916).
LIT: Reid 91; Douglass 1960, p.530 (B45A.1, repr.);
Fredeman p.287 (under 93.37); Goldman 1996 p.285; Maroussia Oakley,
"'The little woodcuts for Strahan keep turning up and must be done':
Arthur Hughes's Illustrations for Alexander Strahan's Periodical Good
Words for the Young," (in The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies
NS 19, Spring 2010), pp.18-19, 21, 22 (B45A.1 repr. p.29, B45A.6
repr. p.30).
Thanks to Maroussia Oakley's article in JPRS (see above), these
designs have at long last been identified.
B46.
Titlepage illustrations for The Works of Miss
Thackeray (Anne, Lady Ritchie).
5. BLUEBEARD'S KEYS.
6. THE STORY OF ELIZABETH.
8. MISS ANGEL AND FULHAM LAWN.
PROV: .... 5 was in an anon. sale,
Sotheby's, 31 October 1997 (repr.). 6
and 8 were in an anon. sale, Sotheby's,
27 June 2006 (part of 24, repr. colour); bought for £4,200 (the
Lot) by Maas Gallery; 8 was bought from
them by Private collector.
9. and 10.
DELETE THESE TWO ENTRIES (it has now been determined that they are not
by Arthur Hughes).
B48.
Illustrations for Speaking Likenesses
(Christina Rossetti).
LIT: Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Christina Rossetti and Illustration
(Ohio University Press, 2002), pp.126-39. To Lucy Madox Rossetti, 24 May 1874 (MS: Angeli/Dennis Papers,
UBC):
Finborough Road
Will you thank Miss Christina Rossetti for me for
suggesting me to illustrate her little book called 'No where' which I
am to do, and am expecting in printed slips every day.
B50. DELETE THIS ENTRY--SEE B45A.1 ABOVE.
B53.
Illustrations for "The Life of the Virgin"
(Julian Moore).
11. THE VIRGIN AND CHILD.
PROV: .... Anon. sale, Lawrences Auctioneers, Crewkerne, 8 July 2011
(1390, repr.), sold for £1,800.
B57.
Illustrations for Pre-Raphaelitism and the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (William Holman Hunt).
3. HALT AT THE WELL.
Pen & ink on "Ordinary Pasteboard Faced with Fine 72lb. Paper"
(stamped verso)....
PROV: .... Anon. sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 20 January 2011 (part
of 338, repr.); bought for £202.24 (the lot) by Private collector.
B59.
Illustrations for 'The Bright Midnight'
(Rev. R.L. Gales, in Vineyard, December 1910).
1. ANGELS O'ER THE REALMS OF GLORY.
PROV: .... Anon. sales, Sotheby's, 5 November 1997 (200, repr. p.104),
unsold, and 11 November 1998 (298, repr.); sold for £1,150.
4. DECORATIONS FOR 'THE SHEPHERD'S GIFTS'.
PROV: Gifted in January 1913 to Rupert Potter. To Susan Lushington, 12 January [1913] (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
I sent one of the little designs I made for the
"Vineyard," [that] they print now as "Greetings,"* to Mr Rupert
Potter. * This design was reprinted and issued as
a Christmas card in 1912.
B60.
Illustrations for The Magic Crook or the
Stolen Baby: A Fairy Story (Greville MacDonald).
Pen & ink on 31 sheets of cardboard, various sizes. All
signed: 'AH' (monogram).
PROV: The 57 drawings were purchased in 1967 by The
Macy Company Collection, HRHRC, University of Texas, Austin
(76.109.1-31).
B61.
Illustrations for Trystie's Quest: or Kit
King of the Pigwidgeons (Greville MacDonald).
EXH: Olympia, 1912-13. To Susan Lushington, 11 April 1912 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
I am sometimes grumbling dreadful over my drawings, and
now and again getting crumbs of joy out of the inventing them; but they
go most dreadfully slowly, but do go on thank goodness. To Susan Lushington, 15 April 1912 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
I am bearing up with my Fairies and Goblins and
Pigwidgeons, with a Leprachaun thrown in; and ransack an empty brain
for pleasantries for the first, and unpleasantries for a second, and
ugliness for a third, and tendernesses for the last. And
altogether it is endurable and sometimes gives me pleasure when I can
see my way and get along. Today I have been at S-Kensington
searching for material. To Susan Lushington, 28 April 1912 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
Thanks too for fixing a date to look forward to. I
almost am glad it is not earlier, for the time flies with the drawings
I am hoping to quite finish and be free from by then, but not much
before....
Dr. Greville MacDonald has just been here to see the
drawings, and can't say enough in their praise; he has always had a
weak spot in his heart for my work. I suppose there must be
people who do not like it, but I don't meet them. I only know the
weak minded I think! To Susan Lushington, 25 July 1912 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
Greville MacDonald, now, after the Eleventh hour,
wishes to leave out one of his best chapters, and has written a very
worst to replace it and wanted me to do two more pictures; and I have declined
and am now reasoning with him by Post and telegram. I hope he
will see the error of his ways. To Susan Lushington, 12 January [1913] (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
I did not properly describe Greville's screen [in an
exhibition at Olympia]. I do not think he was to show my
things by Magic lantern, only hanging on a temporary wall. I saw
them so, but did not attend the lecture.
B62.
Illustrations for Jack and Jill
(Greville MacDonald).
2. 'JACK & JILL' DESIGN
(front cover).
12. GENERAL LEPRECHAUN.
PROV: 2 and 12
were with Alan B. Gateley; consigned by his executors to Rosebery's
West Norwood, 8 June 2010 (836, repr.), unsold, and 5 October 2010
(503, repr.), sold for £752. To Susan Lushington, 25 December 1912 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
Greville actually suggests that I do another book for him! To Susan Lushington, 25 February 1913 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
Greville, who seemed to have decided not to do another
book, now has determined to do the third one and sent me the first four
chapters to start on; and they are very good as I always find his
beginnings are. And I mean to remonstrate if he loses my esteem
as he goes on, though my former objections availed little I must admit. To Susan Lushington, 9 March 1913 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
I am very lucky to be able to amuse myself designing the
new book illustrations. And I have about settled how to do all
the copy I have yet received so far, and with Godfrey's help am making
beginnings of them all. To Susan Lushington, [21 March] 1913 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
Greville makes me happy by giving me some new script--a
Dragon, & a Witch! and some Trolls! So I feel quite at home. To Susan Lushington, 15 April 1913 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
I have just been vegetating cheerfully over MacDonald
drawings, and yesterday he came and saw them so far with great delight
I think; but I do so wish the story were less hastily put together. To Susan Lushington, 17 April 1913 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
I have just come to a point of great trouble in the
illustrations for Greville's Story. I am about the middle of it,
and have received so far three quarters of the manuscript, and am about
the crucial difficulty of devising the pictures as a whole to bring out
and make the best I can of Greville's story. Some people will
read it only by its pictures, with the text for a soft background to
them (these are the idle people who will say they are too busy); and I
think I must be rather like a person setting out a concert, for I am
trying to make out the best thread that I can out of a considerable
jumble. And then those larger subjects and incidents that will
show and bring out the passage of it, with the variety wanted in them
as they appear, and the need for beautiful and happy ones to overnumber
and balance the necessarily serious and not to say dismal and grim
ones. This you may conceive means anxiety more or less; and Time
is on the Wing and writers and publishers have no idea of how much of
it is necessary to the artist that he may give them the best he can. To Susan Lushington, [12 May] 1913 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
I have been busy with my illustrations as you guessed;
and I gave Greville twelve finished ones the Sunday after my visit to
you, and he did not know how to praise them enough. And he took
them to a new Publisher for bringing out, and he also echoed Greville's
opinion; and now I am grinding along with the later ones and have not
yet received quite the whole of the Story. To Susan Lushington, 14 June 1913 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
I shall not be able I fear to complete my drawings by
then, with a rather difficult picture in colour added for
frontispiece. Greville thinks them better than the former books I
did for him, and I greatly wish them to be, for his sake and my
own. And most likely this will be my last, and I would like it to
be the best I can do....
I have been working hard (for me) and with help too; but
"Art is long." To Susan Lushington, 20 June 1913 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
My drawings go on and will I think until the arrival of
[Mrs. Bolus]. But I am happy to see my way through the trouble of
the coloured frontispiece, and am hopeful altogether about them. To Susan Lushington, 30 June 1913 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
The drawings are still tailing off; but hope to be quite
done before [July 7th]. To Susan Lushington, 25 November 1913 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
Greville MacDonald ... wants a new cover done for "Jack
& Jill"! But it is all nearly through now.
B64. DELETE THIS ENTRY (there is now some doubt as to
whether this design is by our artist).
B65. DELETE THIS ENTRY (the design has now been
identified).
B66A.
TITLE UNKNOWN (study). c.1900. Pencil on card, 25.5 x 18cm, 10 x 7in. Signed l.l.:
'AH' (monogram).
PROV: Private collector; bought from him on 29 July 2005 for £348
by Scott Thomas Buckle.
B68.
UNSEEN. Mid-1860s to mid-1870s.
This drawing was reproduced as one of the plates in
Geoffrey Holme (ed.), Drawings In Pen & Pencil From Durer's Day
To Ours (The Studio, 1922). The search continues for the
title of the publication for which the drawing was executed.
Appendix A:
Excerpts from
Letters with Multiple References
Letter 12A To Ford Madox Brown [c. mid-August 1882] (MS: South
African National Gallery)
Wandle Bank
I have all last year's pictures [156,
171, 172, 178] and this [177,
179, 180, 181, 182]
unsold. I have sent three [100.3, 172, 186] to
Manchester, so do take a look at the Exh'n like a dear old boy.
The Royal Institution is the name of the place. I send them to
the Academy and Grosvenor both each year and they are fairly well hung
and very cheap, and never comes any application (and nobody gives me
any woodcuts to do these 7 years past)....
I occasionally meditate doing watercolour a little; and
that reminds me, I could finish the study of a blown wood [169] I lent you some day, so if you have done
with it, will you send it somehow?
Letter 25A To Susan Lushington, 13 December 1912 (MS: Private collection):
Kew Green
It is so nice to read that you wish I "could have seen
with you all the stars reflected in the pond,"... and I could wish it
too, and then wish to paint them perhaps. But do I not remember
painting a small picture that I called "The Bath of the Star" [371], where through a few thin willowy trees
you saw one star in water; and did not your friend Mr Somerset
Beaumont buy it and two or three others [350,
358, 373, 382, 388, 389] at my Exhtn at the Fine Art Socty?
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PROV: ...;
thence to his son Bernard Powell MacDonald; thence to his grandson
Peter MacDonald; thence to his widow Rosemary MacDonald; thence in 2006
to her son Christopher MacDonald. Bought from a dealer by Private collector.
India ink on thin card, 85 x
62mm, unsigned
India ink on thin card, unsigned.
India ink on thin card, 90 x
65mm, signed l.l.: 'AH' (monogram).
India ink on thin card, signed
l.l.: 'AH' (monogram).
PROV: ...; bought
in 1937 from R.E.A. Wilson (inscription verso). Thomas Agnew
& Sons (label verso). Mary Durnford; bequeathed in 2002 to
her nephew Ed Ruck-Keene.
Pencil on card, 25.5 x 18cm, 10 x 7in. Signed l.l.:
'AH' (monogram).